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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/44 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is disclosed a technique for use in authentication. The technique comprises selecting an authentication challenge when an authentication request is deemed risky. An attack threat determined to be associated with the authentication request acts as a decision factor in the selection of the authentication challenge such that a biometric challenge is selected in the event that the attack threat describes a stolen device and an out-of-band challenge is selected in the event that the attack threat describes a stolen identification credential.